Interstellar

Whew, I just finished watching Interstellar.  Yeah, I know most of you have watched it months ago.  I don't go to the movies much.  I usually wait until they show up on Netflix or Amazon Instant Video.  I watched this on Amazon.  I am really glad I didn't watch this at the movie theater.  Nearly three hours long!  That is a lot of trips to the rest room for an old guy.  So this way I can pause it and not miss anything.

Pretty amazing movie.  Blackholes, relativity, etc.  I enjoyed it--even with Matthew McConaughey being a tu guy. 

I am a long time sci-fi fan.  Of course started with the original Star Trek.  Also Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein and Frank Hebert's Dune series.

I was wondering about the science in Interstellar.  They had an explosion in space and were true to form with no sound, so that was good.  It seems to be pretty good overall from what I can tell--not being an astrophysicist.

There is an interview on Science Friday that you can listen to.  I downloaded a sample of Kip Thorne's The Science of Interstellar.  Will see how that reads--Thorne is on the Science Friday interview. 

Some other good articles I found include:

• ‘Interstellar': Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Film’s Science
• Parsing the Science of Interstellar with Physicist Kip Thorne